The iFixit App Is Here

We’ve got big news: Today, you can download the iFixit app from the App Store and Google Play Store. All the repair guides you know and love, streamlined for mobile. A workbench that keeps track of your repairs. And some awesome app-only features, including a battery lifespan predictor and voice control with our brand-new AI repair buddy, FixBot.

iFixit’s Announcing an App? What Year Is It?

Wait, iFixit seriously didn’t have an app until 2025? Well, not quite. We actually first launched an app back in 2011. But then, in 2015, we tore down a developer unit Apple TV and got kicked out of the App Store.

Since then, we’ve been app-less. Our community, though, has kept asking for more mobile-native goodness. We’ve heard you, and we’re proud to finally share what we’ve been working on.

Now, we’re back, baby. And better than ever.

The Modern Repair Paradox

We own more stuff than any generation in history, yet we know how to fix less of it. The diversity of what we own has outpaced our ability to learn how to fix it. Smart thermostats. E-bikes. Robot vacuums. Air fryers with WiFi. New products are hitting the market faster than ever.

Whenever I fix something, I think about my grandfather. If something broke around the house, we called him. He’s the one who taught me to crack open a broken tube stereo instead of being afraid of it. His dad taught him on his hay farm; he taught me. That knowledge accumulated across generations because the fundamentals stayed stable long enough to pass down. But grandpa never saw a Nintendo Switch. Nobody’s grandmother knows how to fix a robot vacuum. We’re the first generation that has to figure most of this out alone.

Fortunately, more repair information is becoming available every day. Right to Repair laws are finally forcing manufacturers to share service manuals. iFixit and YouTube tutorials exist for everything. But Google has become a wasteland of AI-generated spam and affiliate marketing clickbait. We’ve all lived through the exhaustion of scrubbing through seven YouTube videos, each promising an “easy fix,” hunting for the one that actually shows the right screw.

Yet repair has never been more necessary. Life has gotten expensive. When an $800 phone breaks, that’s a month of groceries. We need to fix our stuff, and we can’t afford to waste hours hunting for answers. That’s where the iFixit app comes in: your trusted filter through the noise. Human-verified guides. Community-tested solutions. The wisdom of millions of successful repairs, distilled into one voice you can actually trust.

Fixes for What Ails You

So what’s in the app? Well, it’s an app for your phone, so let’s start there. We built a complete toolkit for maintaining your phone, from tracking battery wear to more intensive fixes.

Battery Health Intelligence

Your phone doesn’t warn you that the battery is wearing out. It just gets worse and worse until one day you realize you’re tethered to a charger and your phone starts shutting down at 20%. This drives me crazy. I don’t understand why manufacturers don’t tell you when to expect to perform maintenance. Your car tells you when to change the oil!

So we built a tool that monitors your battery’s actual capacity in real time. Instead of abrupt shifts from “good” to “service needed,” we made some simple graphs plotting how your battery is wearing down. The app tells you months in advance when your battery will need replacing, so you can plan the repair on your schedule instead of scrambling when your phone dies at the airport.

This beta feature is a work in progress, because every phone reports its battery data a little differently. Apple doesn’t make the data available directly via an API, but allows access through an analytics file. Samsung makes it hard to get data on batteries that aren’t calibrated with secret software in their authorized service centers. But we’ve been able to pull together something that is useful in most situations. Give it a try and let us know your experience, and we’ll keep improving the accuracy as we go.

FixBot: Your AI Repair Companion

Grandpa isn’t around anymore, and I miss having someone to ask when I’m puzzled by a repair problem. FixBot is like having a patient repair expert on speed dial. Describe your problem by voice or text and it’ll walk you through diagnosis, adapting to what you’re actually seeing. We gave FixBot a voice because it’s hard to use a device while you’re turning a screw. My hands are often covered in some kind of grease that I don’t want on my screen. And unlike generic AI, FixBot is trained on millions of successful iFixit community repairs, not internet averages and clickbait. (Voice mode is an Alpha feature that is under active development.)

We’ve spent two years pouring everything we know about repair into FixBot, and we’re really thrilled with the result. I wrote more about what FixBot can do over here.

The Pocket Repair Guide

Last week, my two year old decided my Pixel 7 Pro was a football and cracked the screen. The app knows what phone I have, and immediately routes me to the part and guide I need. No more paging through Google or fumbling with browser tabs mid-repair. Our goal was to streamline the process: Figure out what the fix will take, find the right part, and follow the guide to install it. Open the app and get to work.

Of course, the app includes all of iFixit at your fingertips. Thousands of step-by-step guides, with photos at every stage. Save your devices to the app and skip the endless hunt for model numbers. Your stuff is right there when you need it. Search actually works: type “screen flickering” and get real answers, not SEO noise. Professional-grade documentation, built for first-timers.

Parts & Tools Ecosystem

There’s nothing worse than finishing a repair and having a low quality part let you down. I’ve suffered through shoddy parts from Amazon too many times, and I’m over it. We only sell parts I’d use myself. The app checks compatibility before you order, so you’re not returning the wrong battery for the third time. Tools are high quality and hand curated. When you know what you need, ordering is fast.

Reclaiming Your Power Through Repair

We had a ceiling fan that would only kick on if you banged the wall. Grandpa laughed and called it a poltergeist. I was intimidated to try fixing it myself. What if I made it worse?

Helping him rewire that fan helped me realize how capable I really was. I flipped the switch, the ceiling fan started working again, and I thought: I can’t believe I did that. Now, I teach other people to fix things they never thought they could. The second repair is always easier. By the third, they start looking around their house differently. What else can I fix?

This is the confidence cascade, and it changes how you see yourself. You stop being a consumer who passively buys and abandons. You become a maintainer. An owner. You take care of your stuff instead of being at its mercy. Fixing things is the antidote to learned helplessness. Every successful repair is proof that you’re not dependent on the next available technician, on some company that would rather you just buy a new one.

We live in an era of planned obsolescence. Companies want you renting, not owning. The iFixit community has been pushing back against that. We’re a bunch of regular folks proving to ourselves, one repair at a time, that regular people can take care of their own stuff.

That’s the movement you’re joining. Repair is power. Your things belong to you. Being able to fix your own stuff is a skill worth having.

And right now? It’s a skill we can’t afford not to have. Life has gotten expensive. Wages haven’t kept up. Your phone breaking shouldn’t mean choosing between a replacement and rent. Learning to fix what you own is incredibly satisfying. The iFixit app is a grandfather in your pocket: patient, knowledgeable, and ready to help you figure it out.

It’s Live! Is it Live? It’s Alive!

The iFixit app is in both Google Play and, rather shockingly, Apple’s App Store. Get it while it’s hot.

This is just the beginning: let us know what you think and what we should add next over on iFixit Meta.